Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Edo state chapter on Sunday in Benin insisted on the use of indirect mode of primary election to pick the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the party’s June 22 primary election.

This position is on the heels of a purported visit of Governor Godwin Obaseki and many of his aides to a National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in Lagos to wade into the crisis between Obaseki and the national chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

Addressing a press conference at the state APC Secretariat, Vice Chairman of ALGON who is also the chairman of Etsako Central local government area, Hon Joseph Akhigbe who stood in for the chairman, Hon Jenkins Osunde said with the ravaging coronavirus, the indirect mode of primary was the best option to be adopted to avoid emergency and fatality .

According to him, “To propose a direct primary governorship nomination process for our political party in the current season of a global pandemic, to create a gathering where thousands of our party members will have to intimately relate with a zero prospect of social distancing, is to us irresponsible and humanly reckless.

“For a party that was founded on the principles of the supremacy of the interest of the people, Edo state ALGON is shocked that the National Working Committee (NWC)of our party had supposedly opted to conduct a direct primary process of nomination for Edo governorship.

We believe that the members of the NWC will not want to be chronicled as the political leaders who were willing to sacrifice the lives of their members for the ungodly advantage of securing a political advantage in an election.

“Edo state ALGON hereby make clear our resolution that indirect primary is the safest option, the most humane and healthy alternative for the APC 2020 governorship primaries.

“We stand solidly and irrevocably with the position of the state leadership of our party under the dynamic chairman, Barr Anselm Ojezua and the expressed thoughtful concerns of our political leaders and supporters worldwide”

He said the they were solidly behind the programs of the administration of the Governor Godwin Obaseki who they said was performing well in all the sectors of the state.
https://www.independent.ng/edo-algon-rejects-apc-direct-primaries/

Edo and Trouble plus Corruption are like 5, 6 and 7

Oshiomole will be embarrassed come June22nd, South South Will/might be PDP all tru come November 2020

Leave Oshiomole and his unfortunate greedy and selfish party leaders to continue to delude themselves. When we said Obaseki enjoys popular support in Edo state, those who are not even from the state are there talking out of point and now it’s starting to show.
Oshiomole and his co travelers disgrace is very near. For Edo citizens, it is Obaseki & Philip Shaibu till 2024!!!

iamDreem8:
Edo and Trouble plus Corruption are like 5, 6 and 7

but no corruption in Abia Anambra Enugu Ebonyi n Imo even with all the communal clashes you have been using to count scores.

AlGon can go ahead to conduct their own primary election. Simple

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Trash.

Ugly Obaseki must go.

their views are Inconsequential